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@SungrazerComets

The Sungrazer project allows anyone world-wide to discover comets in images from the ESA/NASA SOHO and NASA STEREO missions... now with over 2,200 discoveries!

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For LASCO, it's always eclipse time! Check out this awesome image with Mercury, Jupiter, the Pleiades and a CME!

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I *think* this is Jupiter's moon Callisto in LASCO C2

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Bill Nye and me! Awesome night at the #spacesymposium :)

  • 45 days ago via site
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Ever wondered what a "Marsden-group" comet looks like? Wonder no more!

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#CometSWAN in raw LASCO C2 data. Hate to break the bad news but this comet is NOT going to survive...

  • 81 days ago via site
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Am doing some Comet Lovejoy analysis right now. Get to play with these beautiful SDO images. *happy sigh*

  • 87 days ago via site
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Here's yesterday's Kreutz-group comet entering SOHO/LASCO C2. It should be reaching perihelion right around now.

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Newly discovered Kreutz-group comet in LASCO C3. Still small, but should get quite bright...

  • 186 days ago via site
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SOHO discovers lots of comets in November and December, but most of them look like this...

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Two very bright stars meet a bright comet. One of the three won't survive the encounter... #comet

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SOHO's latest comet discovery could get as bright as m3 or m4 later today

  • 228 days ago via site
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SOHO's latest comet discovery has about 24hrs left before it vaporizes in the solar corona

  • 228 days ago via site
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If anyone finds any #UARS debris that looks like this, it's ours and we'd love to have it back :)

  • 253 days ago via site
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Yesterday's now-evaporated bright Kreutz comet didn't die alone! This small companion was visible by its side.

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Here's an earlier image of the bright Kreutz-group comet currently in SOHO/LASCO C3

  • 390 days ago via site
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